Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Quotes 194

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever...

Doubt grows with knowledge.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my...

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of...

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one...

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with...

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see...

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of...

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